Culture Eats Kaizen for Breakfast: Why Continuous Improvement Starts with People

The phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast” is well known in business — and in manufacturing, it’s never more true than with continuous improvement. Because the truth is this: you can’t improve what you don’t culturally support. At CBS, we’ve seen too many companies launch lean programs, train their teams on kaizen events, and hang […]
Reviving a Culture of Problem-Solving: Tools and Techniques for Effective Root Cause Analysis

In today’s fast-paced, high-pressure business environment, it’s all too easy for organizations to slip into a perpetual state of firefighting. When problems arise – and they inevitably will – the knee-jerk reaction is often to hastily apply a Band-Aid solution and move on to the next crisis. While this approach may provide temporary relief, it […]